NEW YORK - The planned mosque near Ground Zero has attracted hundreds of protesters climax Sunday with the enemies of Islam related to the implementation of character with blood, trailer, and exclaimed: "Say No racism afraid! "and waving American flags on both sides.
The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans, although it was suggested that the organizers might be ready at some point to discuss another site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a trip to the Middle East, which earned the attention of this project is actually positive, and he hopes it will bring a better understanding.
At the corner of the building surrounded old, who broke a 13-storey Islamic community and the mosque became the center, the police, the two groups of demonstrators. There were no reports of physical confrontations, but there were some confrontations nose to nose, including a man and a woman shouting at each other over a barricade in a steady rain.
Opponents of the project, $ 100,000,000, two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center appears more likely than supporters. Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA screams" mosque loudspeakers sang as opponent: "no mosque, no!"
Signs of dozens of protesters behind police barricades raised reading "Sharia" - with drops, blood red letters on the Islamic Sharia, which governs the behavior of Muslims describe.
Steve Ayling, make a plumber of 40 years, of Brooklyn, a sign for a dry place in an office building, said that the people behind the mosque project, "are the same people who made the Twin Towers."
Opponents argue that the mosque near the point where more than 2,700 people September 11, 2001 have been killed to be postponed. "They should put it in the Middle East," said Ayling.
On a nearby sidewalk, police chased a group that a banner with pictures of abuse, torture, stoning and others said it was committed, deployed by those who follow Islamic law.
A mannequin wears a keffiyeh, traditional Arab headdress, was one of two models mounted missiles that are part of an anti-mosque have been installed. A rocket has been registered by the words: "Again? Targeted freedom of religion", the other with "Obama: With a first name, Hussein understand. We. Bloomberg: What's your excuse?
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vigorously defended plans for the proposed mosque, said that the "right to practice your religion, the real reason America was founded."
The mosque project will be led by Rauf persist and his wife Daisy Khan, the center will promote moderate Islam. The dispute has sparked a national debate on religious freedom and American values and is always an issue in the campaign before the congressional elections. Republicans have criticized the position of President Barack Obama: He said that Muslims have the right to the center to be built on the site, but did not comment on whether he thinks they should.
Rauf is in the middle of a trip to the Middle East by the U.S. State Department in order to promote religious tolerance is promoted. He told a meeting Sunday to get the residence of U. S. ambassador "in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, he has the heart of the controversy surrounding the mosque and said:" The fact that we are the kind of attention is a sign of success. "
"It is my hope that the people understand," Rauf said without elaborating.
Democratic New York Governor David Paterson that state lands far from Ground Zero to use for the proposed center. Khan, Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Promotion expressed some openness to the idea on ABC "This Week with Christiane Amanpour, but said she would have with the center of the other" stakeholders "for first encountered.
"We want to build bridges," said Khan. "We want to create conflict, this is not where we come from. So it is our opportunity to really turn around and make it something very, very positive. So we will meet, and we will do what is good for everyone. "
But Khan said the furious reaction of the project is as a metastatic-Semitism. "
"It is not even Islamophobia. This is Islamophobia," she said. "It is hatred of Muslims."
In the event pro-mosque, held a demonstration to block opponents, several hundred people chanting "Muslims are welcome here, we say no to racism afraid!"
Mr. Akram Ali, a doctor of 39 years, Brooklyn has come with his three son and a nephew of 11, waving an American flag. He noted that the scores of Muslims who died in the towers, and those he called the mosque "un-American to oppose."
"They teach their children the freedom of religion in America - but do not practice what they preach," said Akram.
John Green, who lost a friend in the attacks, said that although the organizers the right to build the project, I think that if she moved, she get the respect of Americans more than they Hardball. Play "It was in the group showing the mosque opponents.
Gila Barzvi, whose son, Guy, was killed in the towers, shaking opponents mosque with a large photo of her son stood with both hands.
"This is holy ground, and that's where my son was buried," said the native of Israel of Queens. She said the mosque was "like a knife in our hearts."
It was a close friend, Kobi Mor, who flew from San Francisco joined to participate in the rally.
If the mosque is built, "we bomb," said Mor. He did not elaborate, but added that he believes the project will never happen. "
Rauf, in an interview with the newspaper Al-Wasat Bahrain, said American sweeping constitutional rights are imposed in accordance with Islamic principles, the borders of some Muslim countries.
"Engaging American Muslims have the right to their religion under the Constitution of the United States," said Rauf. "I see the article in the independence, more than with the principles of Islam than that many Muslim countries in progress. "
was considered a part of the interview Al Wasat - which will be published on Monday - Sunday from The Associated Press.
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